Disorderly Feelings

Shuvo Banerjee

Wed, May 22 2013

Photography: Rajat Dey

About Shuvo

My association with poetry dates back to school days as I grew up under the tutelage of my late father Bejoy Krishna Bandyopadhyay, a renowned poet of the 60's whose writings used to be published in Bengali magazine Desh. But staying abroad has played a key role in me becoming a poet as it is a key part of my existence.

This beautiful earth under the azure skyAnd that boundless blue over our green earthAnd the merry sun of a spring mornAnd when the shadows of darkness fallThe earth falls asleep like a little girl on daddy's lap.And, descending like the morning dewHushed sobs on windswept treesOf men, women and childrenFast asleep, under this endless skyOn the boulevard of their broken dreamsWe can hearTheir endless criesLike a pithy murmurHanging everywhereIn the airAs our mundane life comes to a standstillAn eerie silence pervadesAnd the further we try to run awayThe same pain and suffering is here to stayThese little hopes and big dreamsThe same sorrows will chime in our heartAll these disorderly feelings And pent up silenceHowever much we try to forgetThey will always haunt usAnd, those estranged feelings will come alive.